Tickets are still available for the fourth annual Wine & Dine Wisconsin this weekend.

The grand tasting event, produced by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and presented by Boston Store, will be held from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the Delta Center (formerly Frontier Airlines Center), 400 W. Wisconsin Ave., third floor. | Nov. 6, 2012»Read Full Article

When Scottish novelist Iain Banks announced in April that he had an inoperable form of cancer, his large online following responded with affection and dismay.

"There can have been few novelists of recent years who were more aware of what their readers thought of their books; there is a frequent sense in his novels of an author teasing, testing and replying to a readership with which he was pretty familiar," wrote The Guardian's John Mullan in his obituary piece on Banks, who died Sunday at age 59. | June 9, 2013»Read Full Blog Post